For more than a decade, questions have lingered about the possible role of the Saudi government in the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, even as the royal kingdom has made itself a crucial counterterrorism partner in the eyes of American diplomats.

Now, in sworn statements that seem likely to reignite the debate, two former senators who were privy to top secret information on the Saudis’ activities say they believe that the Saudi government might have played a direct role in the terrorist attacks.

“I am convinced that there was a direct line between at least some of the terrorists who carried out the September 11th attacks and the government of Saudi Arabia,” former Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida, said in an affidavit filed as part of a lawsuit brought against the Saudi government and dozens of institutions in the country by families of Sept. 11 victims and others. Mr. Graham led a joint 2002 Congressional inquiry into the attacks.

The Co-Chair of the Congressional Inquiry into 9/11 and former Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Bob Graham, previously stated that an FBI informant had hosted and rented a room to two hijackers in 2000 and that, when the Inquiry sought to interview the informant, the FBI refused outright, and then hid him in an unknown location, and that a high-level FBI official stated these blocking maneuvers were undertaken under orders from the White House (confirmed here).

Today, Graham called for a new 9/11 investigation. As Raw Story notes:

Graham on Monday called on the U.S. government to reopen its investigation into 9/11 after a report found that links between Saudi Arabia and the hijackers were never disclosed by the FBI to the 2002 joint Congressional intelligence committee investigating the attacks.

“In the final report of the congressional inquiry, there was a chapter related primarily to the Saudi role in 9/11 that was totally censored, every word of the chapter has been withheld from the public,” Graham said on MSNBC’s The Dylan Ratigan Show.

“Some of the other questions we ought to be asking are if we know that the Saudis who lived in San Diego and now apparently in Sarasota received substantial assistance, what about the Saudis who lived in Phoenix, Arizona? Or Arlington, Virginia? … What was happening in those places?”

“I believe these are questions for which there are definitive answers, but the American people and largely their elected representatives have been denied that information.”

The Times continues:

His former Senate colleague, Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Democrat who served on the separate 9/11 Commission, said in a sworn affidavit of his own in the case that “significant questions remain unanswered” about the role of Saudi institutions. “Evidence relating to the plausible involvement of possible Saudi government agents in the September 11th attacks has never been fully pursued,” Mr. Kerrey said.

Their affidavits, which were filed on Friday and have not previously been disclosed, are part of a multibillion-dollar lawsuit that has wound its way through federal courts since 2002. An appellate court, reversing an earlier decision, said in November that foreign nations were not immune to lawsuits under certain terrorism claims, clearing the way for parts of the Saudi case to be reheard in United States District Court in Manhattan.

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The Saudis are seeking to have the case dismissed in part because they say American inquiries — including those in which Mr. Graham and Mr. Kerrey took part — have essentially exonerated them. A recent court filing by the Saudis prominently cited the 9/11 Commission’s “exhaustive” final report, which “found no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi individuals funded” Al Qaeda.

But Mr. Kerrey and Mr. Graham said that the findings should not be seen as an exoneration and that many important questions about the Saudis’ role had never been fully examined, partly because their panels simply did not have the time or resources given their wider scope.

Terry Strada of New Vernon, N.J., whose husband died in the World Trade Center, said it was “so absurd that it’s laughable” for the Saudis to claim that the federal inquiries had exonerated them.

Unanswered questions include the work of a number of Saudi-sponsored charities with financial links to Al Qaeda, as well as the role of a Saudi citizen living in San Diego at the time of the attacks, Omar al-Bayoumi, who had ties to two of the hijackers and to Saudi officials, Mr. Graham said in his affidavit.

Still, Washington has continued to stand behind Saudi Arabia publicly, with the Justice Department joining the kingdom in trying to have the lawsuits thrown out of court on the grounds that the Saudis are protected by international immunity.

This was the cental thesis of Michael Moore's film, what five years ago? Jihad Watch and Atlas Shrugs reported extensively on the Saudi connection to 9/11 before that and people shrug them off as being "islamophobes" now Kerry and Grahaem come along and, oh well, its fine? Like it is news?

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comment: the main plot, above, ^.

After reading these posts and sifting through some links, I really wanted to put a personal message in here so readers can understand just what I think is happening in our world today. First, it looks like everyone is waking up, a little late, but awake none the less.

I don't claim to know everything, I don't think anyone does, but the undeniable fact that Shock and Awe is still alive and well today in the USA should be proof positive that we have tumbled down a rabbit hole so far that were surrounded by darkness, as intended.

I have been a study of 9/11 for quite a few years now, The Pentagon from day 3, 2001-9-14 more specifically and I forgot more facts about that unfortunate day than 99% of average American even know. 9/11 was soo very poinent then as it is today because it was the game changer for the USA and the world for that matter. The reason why? Because "they" got away with it.

It brings pain to my heart and distress to my mind to revisit all these inconvienient truths that I learned the hard way, I didn't want to believe it myself, never even crossed my mind at the time till my questions were not being aswered and my 18 page report was shelved after being asked kindly to shut the fuck up. I do own a smoking gun of 9/11 that has influenced me to understand that yes, it was a False Flag. Reality set in at that point, harsh.

Armed with this information, I began monitoring Bill's for "security" and I came to the realization one day after reading the Patriot Act 1 and 2 that they were penned for American's, not nessesarily a "foreign" enemy aka radical muslims etc. The initial losses and the future implications of 9/11 is a word called "National Security", it should frighten you. Michael Chertoff is a good example of a point of reseach for anyone looking for who had personal gain. Follow the money, then follow the policy. And that's just one small example.

The word National Security is very scary word once you come to grips with the language in these pieces of legislation. It's who the purvayor of security is what concerns me especially after learning last year, I am deemed "Enemy of the State" or classified as "Enemy Beligerant" because of my Nationalistic tendencies and or Patriotic values via MIAC report.

NDAA S1867. MIAC Report. Agenda 21. Patriot Act 1 and 2. REX 87. Operation Garden Plot and the Obama Health Care Bill, the reason why I mentioned that is because Department of Homland Security is referenced several times in the Bill and may infringe on personal inalienable rights / freedoms for example, the Federal Government can not force you to buy Health Insurance, unless you are Federal property? See the problem? You have to buy car insurance because you drive on State and Federal roads, understood. But being forced to buy your own Health Care or face possible incarceration has really gone beyond the pale.

What we are witnessing is a Global Consolidation of wealth and the subjugation of US citizens, slaves to debt till you lose everything basically. Any Centeralization of power will always lead to a Dictatorship. Pre crimes, conformity of thought are comming up next if they are not here already, thought Police. Reminds me of that movie Minority Report.

Digressing a bit, but trying to lay out an overall scope to these problems that face us today. Even to the untrained wanna be investigator of 9/11, within the body of this GW post is more than enough damning information for anyone to realize what it was. My 12 year old figured it out one night while I was sifting through WTC jpg Pit pictures and I exclaimed "There it is!" and my son came running over and said.. what Dad? Those are the beams I was told to look for! He paused for a few seconds, asked 2 questions about why this picture was so important then said, but I thought an airplane took the building down Dad? I didn't answer him, I was caught up in "from the mouth of babes" addage then gripped with amazement that the evidence was actually there in the picture as I was told it was, worth a thousand words, literally. My greatest fears settled in being fresh off the Pentagon incedent and knowing what I learned there, like the hair that stands on the back of your neck. Case Closed for me after that. I'm not a WTC complex professional by any means, I just wanted to see some irrefutable truth about tower 1 and 2. Building 7? thats not even a mystery, that's demolition.

I can only speak technically about the Pentagon incident. I just happend to recieve a WTC "present" and now what to do with it is the question.

I don't feel uncomfortable talking about this subject anymore because everone has to know the truth, it's high tide for it. 9/11 will have lasting ramifications for generations to come because TPTB want total control and Police State comes to mind. If you do not want to live through what's comming, get a Passport and find a nice location on Mother Earth that get's internet service, or stand and deliver, that's the only options from here on out.

We have a Rogue Administration installed right now and many are on a Presidential gag order or gone disappeared, incarcerated etc.. I have a feeling of what there end game is and it's just plain evil. A good place to start reading about future events that will begin to shape world policy would be Agenda 21. Thanks for reading.

the patriot act was written years before it was introduced to congress. it was waiting for a 9/11 event or it was written in anticipation of a 9/11 event. i have never been ablw to find out who it's author is.

Hmmm, in the last 2 days, Breitbart is dead only hours before releasing damning video of BO. Rush has a bomb threat. Arpaio releases his findings, and this morning, Beck's studio-supply transformeers myesteriously blew up....

The (intended) result of 911 has been to convince the sheeple that further loss of freedom in all aspects of daily life is necessary to fully protect them-and boy has it worked. What they don't realize is the "Orwellian police states" are being ramped up so that when "joe six pack" finally wakes up, there won't be a damn thing he can do it about it!

What is most interesting about the MSNBC video is that everyone on that 6:35 minute clip avoids any mention of the idea of justice for the victims of 9-11 or their families. Joe Scarborough and company simply do not care that 3000 people were murdered. Neither does the NY Times, which buried the story and did not allow comments. Neither do Obama, Santorum, Romney or Gingrich. Neither does Ron Paul, who has not mentioned it, and will not mention, in the next debate or at the Republican Convention, the fact that successive American governments have been protecting the murderers of 3000 Americans.

of course the 9/11 commission report is full of the same horse shit as the warren commission report which johnson dismissed with more contempt than clinton did of paula jones....

jesse ventura broadcast the 9/11 commissioner (a female and i use the term advisedly) who stated that the purpose of the commission was not to uncover the truth but to "maintain the institutions of government."

if there were saudi connections, and i don't doubt it, they were specifically through the bush crime syndicate which had maintained very close business ties with saddam hussein and osama bin laden aka tim osman....these ties go back to enron and various schemes to steal middle eastern oil....the bushs are very closely connected to saudi arabia - read family of secrets to get more details.

fbi agent o'neil was assigned to wtc as head of security because the bush's knew of the 9/11 attacks and knew that o'neil was finding paper trails leading to the bcs...there were some documents in the pentagon as well which is why a cruise missile - not a fucking airplane, fucktards - was sent to demolish more evidence.

much of the criminal activity funnels through carlyle group where george sr was a board member.

in any event, whatever al qaeda's and saudi involvement, the bcs and usa intelligence were behind the attacks which brought down wtc towers in controlled demolition using nanothermite....

the government has lied about the attacks and has even admitted to doing so to "maintain the institutions of government."

While Richard Perle chaired the Defense Policy Board, they endorsed a report in mid-2002 that characterized Saudi Arabia as "central to the self-destruction of the Arab World and the chief vector of the Arab crises and its outwardly directed aggression. The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to financiers, from cadre to foot-soldier, from ideologists to cheerleader."

The irony, coming from Perle, who also thinks that: "If we let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely, and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy but just wage total war, our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

Perle and his fellow travelers being "central to the self-destruction" of the United States and the "chief vector" in its "outwardly directed aggression."

To the Sauds, when your perceived usefulness ends, your time will come. The world will suddenly turn against you as the drums beat in your direction. Your assets around the world will be siezed, and you will be paraded for the brainwashed masses to spit on. Those are the friends you have made.

What a fool. Building 7 proves controlled demolition to anyone who has a high school level understanding of the laws of physics and isn't so brainwashed that they believe the mainstream over basic science. What can be inferred from the fact of controlled demolition... Well that is a rabbit hole.

Those Saudis...who'd have thought they knew how to sneak in those buildings and rig them for demolition. Who'd have thought they could get air defense to stand down? Maybe they have nanothermite mines out where the oil wells are. Expert pilots, too - wow those guys are only masquerading as Abdul Average, when all along they were the SuperAwesomeHouseOfSaud. Finally the light bulb goes off. Maybe we should bomb them while giving it to ayatollah. If Bibi says it's OK, that is.

I don't believe in coincidence anymore so I wouldn't doubt this scenario.

Bear in mind, were operating under a rogue Administration that will go to any length to insure the success of their final plans. Should become very apparent this Month. Alternative media is their worst enemy right now IMHO.

Tune into Faux "News" and let the psyops wash over your mind. "If the news is broken, we fix it"

Ask the majority of victims, who are the only people who REALLY matter hwne it comes to an American's opinion on 9/11. What they would tell you? The investigation did NOT answer questions for them.

No matter what you think about the attack, this "investigation" by the US Government, is not finished. We weren't told everything, and the people know it. It is just hard to say so with all of the MSM people out there debunking it every September 11th with their "truther" mokcery (which is a big pile of irony if you look at the word in a different light, with what lack of information we've been told).

People often ask me, when I come up with my conclusions (which aren't totally out there): if the government did it/allowed Muslims to do it, what would be their motive?

3 Trillion fucking reasons, thats what.

Really tilts me that people underestimate the capacity of violence and evil from those we percieve as having our best interests (religious institutions, governments) at heart. Remember, during the Dark Ages, Popes were often the biggest Serial Killers (by proxy) of their age.

The war has bankrupted our country? Seriously? It wasn't the banker's 50:1 leveraged bets that blew up and caused the enslaved population to involuntarily bail them out? I think you've missed the whole point of the bailouts. They're not to save the Greece or the US or the EU. They're to save the BANKS!!!! The war is such a small expense when compared to what we're spending to save the banks it's not even funny. I'm not saying I support the war. I'm saying we're being bankrupted by the banking system. I'm sure I'm not alone in understanding the difference.

War IS economic policy. Why leverage without absolute certainty? You dont. War is a mal investment and to read your piss-boy responses ignoring the links between war and faggot banking i can tell you have not sought after truth.

One life is worth more than all the banks and fraud money in the universe.

Because you know your homies at the higest levels of government will bail you out?

It makes me wonder why the human propensity for creating rational order where there is none gets ignored in all these debates? Here's a potential answer for why 9/11 happened, why the answers don't make sense and what's going on in the banking sector: Our "leaders" and captains of industry fuck ups, no single person really knows what's going on and a lot of people are scrambling to save their own asses by hook or crook. That there is adverse selection in these high-level positions and the whole thing is too massive and complicated for anyone, let alone these people, figure it out?

I mean really, if there are these huge omnipotent powers colluding to create war, or enslave everyone, or create a NWO or hide UFOs.....why wouldn't "they" just do whatever they wanted and shutdown interweb sites like this while leaving you only reruns of Leave it to Beaver on the idiot box?

Why can't an explanation of why events happen just be chaos? Or at least, the unpredictable interaction between dipshits of various levels of power acting short sightedly or plotting while ignoring unintentional consequences? What makes us so uneasy with lack of explanations that we create circular reasoning like a cargo cult?

because dipshits can't change physics, don't prevent observers from using common sense, can't fabricate evidence clearly seen and heard by numerous firemen, can't make a big airliner disappear into a building, can't make steel stay molten hot for a month etc, etc, etc.......

The Bush Administration made this a Conspiracy because there was never an investigation to begin with. It was judged in the court of public opinion and what you saw on TV. Made for Hollyood production.

The world knows, have things gotten better in the USA since 9/11? Well have they? Your an enemy of this administration while standing on the soil your forefathers fought for.

Again, it is to install a "fundemental change" that nobody is going to like. It's a creeping death to the United States under the guise of keeping you safe.

Those who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.

Let's not forget Mossad has probably got their fingerprints all over this as well. How convenient it was for the Saudi's and Israelis to instigate a false flag on American soil in order to draw us into fighting their enemies for them. It was a textbook case of collusion between the Saudi's, Mossad and the Zionist hawks, and US intelligence/Millitary Industrial Complex; because each party stood to gain fantastically from the wars that ensued. Don't think for a second that all of the 9/11 objectives were attained, because while Iraq wen't down, and they surrounded Iran on it's northeastern border, the Iranian regieme still stands, and the triad of Saudi/Israeli/US interests still haven't been able to incite a war there - meaning another false flag is coming. That is, unless one or more in the triad dispenses with the useless veil of "just war" and simply bombs Iran - then all three in the triad get what they want - Saudi's dispense with a natural and long standing religious and political enemy, Israel eliminates one of their percieved "existential threats" (borne from nothing more than Zionist paranoia), and the US Military Industrial Complex keeps the revenues coming. This all is part of the picture without even getting into oil, which is another huge part of the equation, and has been since the Carter Doctrine

The fact that more people don't see that the above factors, and not a "war on terror/rogue, terror-sponsoring states", motivated 9/11 and all of our Middle-East policy is beyond me. Maybe 8 or 9 years ago prior to the Iraq invasion, there would be some excuse for buying into the "war on terror" line of BS given the the outrage over the percieved causes of 9/11, but the actions of the US and her allies over the last decade + should make their underlying motivations absolutely clear. The fact that the 9/11 commission was such a farce should have clued the public into the fact that there was more to the story. Those who buy the official narrative are without excuse, as it takes willful ignorance of the facts mounting for 11+ years to believe the shit pudding being spoon-fed the public by the Gov't/MSM.

Kurt Sonnenfeld : perhaps further awareness of him may help provide some cover . . .

Kurt Sonnenfeld : yet another specific, individual reason why The Jews Did It is intolerable, as a few nonetheless endanger any of many, and all of their own, in needing 9/11 buried . . . and anyone,everyone Everything questioning/questionable along with it

We're to believe that -ahhhemmm.... more than 10 years after the fact - two washed-up has-been senators decide all of a sudden to crawl outta the woodwork, at the same time, with that earth-shattering news that Saudia Arabia mighta/coulda/woulda/shoulda/maybe was somehow involved?

Geez - looks like we might now have a twofer: Saudi A, as well as Iran, in the cross-hairs!

It's not "all the sudden" they.. Leahy especially, protested the Bush administration back when the 9/11 commission story was being written complaining that they were being blocked from important information.

Search: Bush White House blocks 9/11 investigation.

All Leahy got in response was weapons grade Anthrax sent to his office.

...and to gw. i heard the easter bunny and obama were involed in the attacks. i cant say where i heard it because they are hiding from your fascist obama and the butt rangler bawney. uh oh i think i saw a bush!

is this gw for real? everyday he has new info about something and we all know its bush who did it. isnt there anyone but this character to write fantasy posts?